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2 unusual facts about Foreign Born


Ariel Rechtshaid

He is the former lead singer and guitarist of the ska/pop-punk band The Hippos, and the indie folk-rock group Foreign Born.

Foreign Born

They began in San Francisco during the late summer months of 2003, but soon relocated to Los Angeles.



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Andriy Yarmolenko

In 2013 Andriy Yarmolenko became the highest scoring foreign born player for the Ukraine national football team surpassing Tymerlan Huseynov, a native of Dagestan, (Russian Federation).

Bolesław Gebert

In 1936 he went to work for the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in charge of efforts to organize fraternal organizations of foreign-born Americans.

Charles E. Bohlen

Bohlen's great-great-uncle was American Civil War General Henry Bohlen, born 1810, the first foreign-born (German) Union general in the Civil War and grandfather of Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (who used the name Krupp after married Bertha Krupp, heiress of the Krupp family, the German weapons makers).

Education in Austria

In 1991, for example, almost 30% of all school-age children in Vienna were children of foreign-born workers, whose mother-tongue was not German.

Generación de la Ruptura

Of the foreign born Ruptura painters, the most important was Vicente Rojo from Cataluña who reshaped Mexican graphic arts.

International adoption

In the United States, citizenship is automatically granted to all foreign-born children when at least one adoptive parent is a U.S. citizen, in accordance with the Child Citizenship Act of 2000.

Islam in France

As of 2008, the French national institute of statistics INSEE estimated that 11.8 million foreign-born immigrants and their direct descendants (born in France) lived in France representing 19% of the country's population.

Italian Peruvian

Claudio Pizarro – football player, the Bundesliga's top foreign-born scorer
His mother's surname is Bossio.

Life in the United Kingdom test

Plans to require foreign-born religious ministers to take the test earlier than other immigrants were later abandoned by the then Immigration Minister, Tony McNulty.

Old Deer

The village is the birthplace of David B. Henderson, one of only two foreign born Speakers of the United States House of Representatives.